Paul Craig Roberts

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|office = United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy

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|president = Ronald Reagan

|predecessor = Curtis A. Hessler

|successor = Manuel H. Johnson

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|4|3}}

|birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

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|occupation = Economist, Author

|education = University of Virginia (PhD)
Georgia Institute of Technology (BS)

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|website=https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

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Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and author. He formerly held a sub-cabinet office in the United States federal government as well as teaching positions at several U.S. universities. He is a promoter of supply-side economics and an opponent of recent U.S. foreign policy.

Roberts received a doctorate from the University of Virginia where he studied under G. Warren Nutter. He worked as an analyst and adviser at the United States Congress where he was credited as the primary author of the original draft of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan and – after leaving government – held the William E. Simon chair in economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for ten years and served on several corporate boards. A former associate editor at The Wall Street Journal, his articles have also appeared in The New York Times and Harper's, and he is the author of more than a dozen books and a number of peer-reviewed papers.

Since retiring, he has been accused of antisemitism and conspiracy theorizing by the Southern Poverty Law Center and others.

Early life and education

Paul Craig Roberts III was born in Atlanta, Georgia on April 3, 1939, to Paul Craig Roberts and Ellen Roberts (née Dryman).{{cite news |title=Miss Dryman Weds Paul C. Roberts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/398056399 |access-date=January 18, 2019 |work=Atlanta Constitution |date=July 22, 1934 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119175725/http://www.newspapers.com/image/398056399/ |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status = live}}{{subscription required}}

Roberts received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was initiated into the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.{{cite news |title=Atlanta Grad to Visit Soviet Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/398620157 |access-date=January 18, 2018 |work=Atlanta Constitution |date=June 30, 1961 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119175722/http://www.newspapers.com/image/398620157/ |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status = live}}{{subscription required}} After university, in 1961, he was awarded a Lisle Fellowship to undertake a tour of the Soviet Union. According to a later profile of Roberts in The New York Times, his experience watching a queue for meat in Tashkent led to him becoming "born again" as an adherent of supply side economics.

Upon his return to the United States, Roberts enrolled in graduate courses at the University of California Berkeley and Stanford University, before earning a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia where he studied as a Thomas Jefferson Scholar. His dissertation, prepared under the supervision of G. Warren Nutter, was titled An Administrative Analysis of Oskar Lange's Theory of Socialist Planning and evolved what Roberts described as "seminal but neglected" ideas set-out by Michael Polanyi in his 1951 text The Logic of Liberty.{{cite book |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1968: January–June |date=1971 |publisher=Library of Congress |page=952 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dkgAQAAIAAJ}}{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State |date=2014 |publisher=Atwell Publishing |isbn=978-0988406520 |page=391}}

On completion of his doctoral studies, Roberts spent a year on a research fellowship at the University of Oxford, where he was a member of Merton College.{{cite web |title=Nomination of Paul Craig Roberts To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44145 |website=Ronald Reagan |publisher=University of California Santa Barbara |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826114036/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44145 |archive-date=August 26, 2018 |url-status = live}}

Career

=Early career=

Roberts began his career with teaching assignments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the University of New Mexico, Stanford University, and Tulane University. He was a professor of business administration and professor of economics at George Mason University and was the inaugural William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at Georgetown University, serving for 12 years.

While a visiting professor at Georgetown University, he was hired as economics counsel to United States Congressman Jack Kemp, later also serving as economics counsel to United States Senator Orrin Hatch, as staff associate with the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and as chief economist with the minority staff of the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Budget. He has been credited as the primary author of the original draft of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981.{{cite book |title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981 |date=1982 |isbn=978-1623769321 |page=64|last1=Reagan |first1=Ronald |publisher=Best Books on }}

During this time, he also contributed columns to Harper's and The New York Times and served as associate editor of The Wall Street Journal{{'}}s opinion page.{{cite news |title=UD to Feature Economist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/61142512 |access-date=January 1, 2013 |work=Irving Daily News |date=April 8, 1979 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115024523/http://www.newspapers.com/image/61142512/ |archive-date=January 15, 2019 |url-status = live}}

=Later career=

In December 1980, along with Alan Greenspan and Herbert Stein, Roberts was one of the three speakers at the two-day National Forum on Jobs, Money and People at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor, Florida.{{cite news |title=Ex-officials to Talk at Innisbrook |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/319356439 |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=Tampa Bay Times |agency=United Press International |date=December 2, 1980 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123010219/http://www.newspapers.com/image/319356439/ |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status = live}} Two months later, in 1981, he was appointed by President of the United States Ronald Reagan as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. As Assistant Treasury Secretary he was a driver behind the economic policy of the first term of the Reagan administration and was lauded as the "economic conscience of Ronald Reagan". Nonetheless, his singular zealousness for supply-side economics provoked ire in some quarters within the government, with Larry Kudlow – then an official in the Office of Management and Budget – saying that "Craig saw himself as the keeper of the Reagan flame. Only Craig knew what was right. No one else knew what was right". Roberts' concern about U.S. budget deficits led him into conflict with other Reagan-era officials such as Martin Feldstein and David Stockman.

Roberts resigned in February 1982 to return to academia.{{cite news |last1=Kilborn |first1=Peter |title=Gadfly Who Bites President on Supply Side |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/06/us/gadfly-who-bites-president-on-supply-side.html |access-date=September 27, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 6, 1984 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714193654/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/06/us/gadfly-who-bites-president-on-supply-side.html |archive-date=July 14, 2018 |url-status = live}}{{cite news |last1=Rowan |first1=Hobart |title=Even Administration is Looking for Alternatives to Reaganomics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/131749984/ |access-date=January 13, 2019 |work=Des Moines Register |date=July 8, 1982 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114210216/https://www.newspapers.com/image/131749984/ |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |url-status = live}} He was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, from 1983 to 1993 was the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and, from 1993 to 1996, a distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute.{{cite web |last=Stratton |first=Lawrence M. |url=http://www.hoover.org/profiles/paul-craig-roberts |title=Paul Craig Roberts |website=hoover.org |publisher=Hoover Institution |date=August 1, 2001 |access-date=December 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108143259/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/paul-craig-roberts |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |url-status = live}}{{cite web |title=Paul Craig Roberts |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?paulroberts |website=c-span.org |publisher=C-SPAN |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114210218/https://www.c-span.org/person/?paulroberts |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |url-status = live}}

From 1983 to 2019, Roberts served as a board director of nine different Value Line investment funds.{{cite web |title=Executive Profile: Paul Craig Roberts |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=628780&privcapId=28112077&previousCapId=23971580&previousTitle=EULAV%20Asset%20Management,%20LLC |website=bloomberg.com |publisher=Bloomberg |access-date=January 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122151924/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=628780&privcapId=28112077&previousCapId=23971580&previousTitle=EULAV%20Asset%20Management,%20LLC |archive-date=January 22, 2019 |url-status = live}} Between 1992 and 2006 he sat on the board of directors of A. Schulman and, according to the company, was its longest-serving independent director at the time of his retirement.{{cite web |title=FORM 8-K November 7, 2006 |url=http://ir.aschulman.com/static-files/bfc65eae-7a43-45e8-9c9e-600c501359ab |website=aschulman.com |publisher=A. Schulman |access-date=January 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122145026/http://ir.aschulman.com/static-files/bfc65eae-7a43-45e8-9c9e-600c501359ab |archive-date=January 22, 2019 |url-status = live}}

==Post-retirement writing and media==

In the 2000s, Roberts wrote columns for Creators Syndicate.{{Cite web|url=http://www.creators.com/opinion/paul-craig-roberts.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211250/http://www.creators.com/opinion/paul-craig-roberts.html|archive-date = 2015-09-23|title = Washington Murdered Privacy at Home and Abroad, by|date = 25 March 2010}} Later, he contributed to CounterPunch, becoming one of its most popular writers.{{cite journal |last1=Marmura |first1=Stephen |title=Likely and Unlikely Stories: Conspiracy Theories in an Age of Propaganda |journal=International Journal of Communication |date=2014 |volume=8 |page=2388 |url=https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2358/1220 |access-date=2019-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503044927/http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/2358/1220 |archive-date=2018-05-03 |url-status = live}} He has been a regular guest on programs broadcast by RT (formerly known as Russia Today).{{cite news |last1=Holland |first1=Adam |title=Paul Craig Roberts: Truther as Patriot |url=http://www.interpretermag.com/paul-craig-roberts-truther-as-patriot/ |access-date=January 19, 2019 |work=The Interpreter |date=April 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120093815/http://www.interpretermag.com/paul-craig-roberts-truther-as-patriot/ |archive-date=January 20, 2019 |url-status = live}} As of 2008, he was part of the editorial collective of the far right website VDARE.{{cite web | title=VDARE | website=Southern Poverty Law Center | url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare | access-date=2021-07-14}} He has been funded by the Unz Foundation.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} His writings are published by Veterans Today, InfoWars, PressTV and GlobalResearch, and he is frequently a guest on the podcasts, radio shows and video channels of the Council of Conservative Citizens, Max Keiser and 9/11 truther Kevin Barrett. His own website publishes the work of Israel Shamir and Diana Johnstone.

Work

=Views=

==Economic policy==

Roberts' commitment to supply-side economics has been a dominant feature of his career. Writing in 1984, Thomas B. Silver said that adherents of supply-side economics had "no more formidable advocate in their ranks" than Roberts. However, Roberts has expressed skepticism at the ability of government to lower taxes and decrease regulation, positing that the personal political ambition of officeholders tends to promote meddling in the economy, a criticism he has directed even at the former Reagan administration of which he was a part.{{cite news |last1=Silver |first1=Thomas |title=Counterrevolution |url=http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/counterrevolution/ |access-date=January 18, 2019 |work=Claremont Review of Books |date=Fall 1984 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119121309/http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/counterrevolution/ |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status = live}}

Ron Hira of the Economic Policy Institute has described Roberts as one of the first prominent economists to "break from the orthodoxy" by opposing offshoring; Roberts believes that the practice is "lethal for America's future".{{cite book |last1=Hira |first1=Ron |title=Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and how We Can Reclaim American Jobs |date=2005 |publisher=American Management Association |isbn=978-0814408681 |page=[https://archive.org/details/outsourcingameri00hira/page/38 38] |url=https://archive.org/details/outsourcingameri00hira/page/38 }} According to him, "a country that doesn't make anything doesn’t need a financial sector as there is nothing to finance".{{cite news |last1=Cockburn |first1=Alexander |title=Nail That Double Standard to the Mast! |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/nail-double-standard-mast/ |access-date=January 18, 2019 |work=The Nation |date=December 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119120851/https://www.thenation.com/article/nail-double-standard-mast/ |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status = live}} In 2004, Paul Blustein in The Washington Post described him as heretical in relation to mainstream US economics for challenging the positive impact of free trade.{{cite news | title=Economist's Challenge Puzzles Free-Trade Believers | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=2004-02-26 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2004/02/26/economists-challenge-puzzles-free-trade-believers/c3201860-aaac-4f20-8fa7-63c8aa846c51/ | access-date=2021-07-14}}

Roberts is also a critic of the Federal Reserve System and central banking in general.{{cite web |first=Darrell |last=Delamaide |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2015/08/25/delamaide-fed-stock-market-turmoil/32331767/ |title=Delamaide: Fed role murky amid market chaos |website=USA Today |date=August 25, 2015 |access-date=December 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108143259/http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2015/08/25/delamaide-fed-stock-market-turmoil/32331767/ |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |url-status = live}}

==Society and culture==

According to Roberts, "the West in general suffers from an excess of skepticism about its own values and accomplishments. We're being gobbled up by nihilism, itself the product of unbridled skepticism. It's hard to anchor on to the verities anymore". He has expressed his opposition to Affirmative Action policies and dismissed the existence of white male privilege.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=Second-class citizens |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/402946811 |access-date=January 18, 2019 |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=24 March 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174403/http://www.newspapers.com/image/402946811/ |archive-date=19 January 2019 |url-status = live}} In an opinion column for Scripps Howard News Service in 1997, Roberts opposed gender integration aboard U.S. Navy vessels, opining that gender integration would destroy the "ethos of comradeship" which, in his view, motivated wartime sacrifice more than "abstract concepts such as honor and country".{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=Women in the Ranks Will Destroy the Military |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/351905628 |access-date=January 18, 2019 |work=The Missoulian |agency=Scripps Howard News Service |publisher=newspapers.com |date=February 13, 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174346/http://www.newspapers.com/image/351905628/ |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status = live}}

In The New Color Line (1995), Roberts and co-author Lawrence M. Stratton argue that the Civil Rights Act was subverted by the bureaucrats who applied it.{{cite news|last1=Rees|first1=Matthew|title=Rethinking civil rights (book review)|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=October 26, 1995|id={{ProQuest|398618340}}}}{{cite news|last1=Jacoby|first1=Tamar|title=The Politics of Identity (book review)|work=The New York Times|date=November 19, 1995|id={{ProQuest|109466614}}}}{{cite news|last1=Naison|first1=Mark|title=Assessing Affirmative Action (book review)|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 3, 1995|id={{ProQuest|904922559}}}}

He believes the US is a police state.

==Drug policy==

Writing in 1995, Roberts expressed skepticism at the war on drugs, saying that it "perfectly illustrates the maxim 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'."{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=End the Drug Prohibition |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/462170684 |access-date=January 18, 2019 |work=San Francisco Examiner |date=January 20, 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120043109/http://www.newspapers.com/image/462170684/ |archive-date=January 20, 2019 |url-status = live}} In The Tyranny of Good Intentions (2000), Roberts and co-author Lawrence Stratton argued that the opposition of some American conservatives to drug-policy reform was an example of "the right's myopia".{{cite journal |last1=Leverenz |first1=Nikos A. |title=The Tyranny of Good Intentions (Review) |journal=The Independent Review |date=Fall 2001 |volume=6 |issue=2 |url=http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=167 |access-date=2019-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174743/http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=167 |archive-date=2019-01-19 |url-status = live}}

==Foreign policy==

He is a strong opponent of neoconservatism, saying, "the neocons are the worst thing that ever happened to the United States. (They’re) really the scum of the earth… They should all be picked up and shipped out of the country. They all belong in Israel. That’s where they should be. Pick ’em up, ship ’em to Israel, revoke their passports."

Roberts has stated his opposition to United States involvement in the post-2001 War in Afghanistan and to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. According to Roberts, "the Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable, democratic government in the United States". He believes the US is a puppet government of Israel.

He supports Russian president Vladimir Putin, blames Euromaidan and the Syrian civil war on a neocon plot, and argues that human rights NGOs working in Russia are part of a “US fifth column” working to undermine its government.

==Charges of conspiracy theorizing and antisemitism==

Writing in USA Today, Darrell Delamaide has described Roberts as a "conspiracy theorist", a charge echoed by Luke Brinker of Salon, and Michael C. Moynihan of The Daily Beast, who has also described him as partaking in "Putin worship".{{cite news |last1=Brinker |first1=Luke |title=Ron Paul defends insane Charlie Hebdo conspiracy theory: I'm just trying "to get the truth out"! |url=https://www.salon.com/2015/01/16/ron_paul_defends_insane_charlie_hebdo_conspiracy_theory_im_just_trying_to_get_the_truth_out/ |access-date=January 19, 2019 |work=Salon |date=January 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131142503/https://www.salon.com/2015/01/16/ron_paul_defends_insane_charlie_hebdo_conspiracy_theory_im_just_trying_to_get_the_truth_out/ |archive-date=January 31, 2019 |url-status = live}}{{cite news|last1=Moynihan|first1=Michael|author-link=Michael C. Moynihan|title=From ISIS to Ebola, What Has Made Naomi Wolf So Paranoid?|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-isis-to-ebola-what-has-made-naomi-wolf-so-paranoid|access-date=January 19, 2019|work=The Daily Beast|date=October 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131142458/https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-isis-to-ebola-what-has-made-naomi-wolf-so-paranoid|archive-date=January 31, 2019|url-status = live}} Roberts has rejected the label and, in turn, described Jonathan Chait and Amy Knight as conspiracy theorists.{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=The View of Russia in the West |url=https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/10/the-view-of-russia-in-the-west-paul-craig-roberts/ |website=paulcraigroberts.org |publisher=Paul Craig Roberts (official website) |access-date=January 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120093938/https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/10/the-view-of-russia-in-the-west-paul-craig-roberts/ |archive-date=January 20, 2019 |url-status = live}}

Roberts has described himself as a "9/11 skeptic" and spoken at 9/11 Truth movement events.{{cite news |last1=Froomkin |first1=Dan |title=A Reagan Republican Makes A Case Against The War – And His Own Party |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/07/afghanistan-paul-craig-roberts_n_832427.html |access-date=January 19, 2019 |work=The Huffington Post |date=May 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108040851/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/07/afghanistan-paul-craig-roberts_n_832427.html |archive-date=November 8, 2015 |url-status = live}}{{cite web | title=Charges Against We Are Change Leader Belie Group's Pacifist Image | website=Southern Poverty Law Center | date=2010-09-01 | url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2010/09/01/charges-against-we-are-change-leader-belie-groups-pacifist-image | access-date=2021-07-14|quote=The roster for WAC’s upcoming Sept. 9-12 9/11 conference in New York City reflects its continuing ability to attract A-list conspiracy theorists, while still bridging right and left. Speakers [include] Paul Craig Roberts, a right-wing columnist who writes for the racist VDARE.com website (named after the first English child born in America).}} Regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Roberts has written that "all evidence pointed to a plot by the Joint Chiefs, CIA, and Secret Service whose right-wing leaders had concluded that President Kennedy was too 'soft on communism'".{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=9/11: Finally the Truth Comes Out? |url=https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/01/04/9-11-finally-the-truth-comes-out/ |website=paulcraigroberts.org |publisher=Paul Craig Roberts (official website) |access-date=2019-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120093935/https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/01/04/9-11-finally-the-truth-comes-out/ |archive-date=2019-01-20 |url-status = live}} He has also stated that the Charlie Hebdo shooting has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation" motivated in part “to stifle the growing European sympathy for the Palestinians and to realign Europe with Israel”.{{cite news |last1=Welch |author-link=Matt Welch |first1=Matt |title=Ron Paul Institute Publishes a Charlie Hebdo 'False Flag' Piece |url=https://reason.com/blog/2015/01/15/ron-paul-institute-publishes-a-charlie-h |access-date=January 19, 2019 |work=Reason |date=15 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203022319/http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/15/ron-paul-institute-publishes-a-charlie-h |archive-date=December 3, 2018 |url-status = live}}{{cite web | title=Anti-Semitic Conspiracies Continue In Aftermath Of Paris Attacks

| website=Anti-Defamation League| url=https://chicago.adl.org/anti-semitic-conspiracies-continue-aftermath-paris-attacks/ |date=January 16, 2015|access-date=2021-07-14}} The Washington Post noted that in 2014 Roberts speculated on his blog that Ebola originated as a US bioweapon and this was picked up by North Korea's state media.{{cite news | last=Taylor | first=Adam | title=North Korea says U.S. created the Ebola outbreak | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=2014-12-01 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/01/north-korea-says-u-s-created-the-ebola-outbreak/ | access-date=2021-07-14}}

==Views on World War II and the Holocaust==

In 2019, Roberts wrote in support of the views of Holocaust denier David Irving, asserting that "Irving, without any doubt the best historian of the European part of World War II, learned at his great expense that challenging myths does not go unpunished... I will avoid the story of how this came to be, but, yes, you guessed it, it was the Zionists".[https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/05/15/the-lies-about-world-war-ii The Lies About World War II] By Paul Craig Roberts | May 15, 2019, Foreign Policy Journal Roberts added that "No German plans, or orders from Hitler, or from Himmler or anyone else have ever been found for an organized holocaust by gas and cremation of Jews... The "death camps" were in fact work camps. Auschwitz, for example, today a Holocaust museum, was the site of Germany's essential artificial rubber factory. Germany was desperate for a work force."

Personal life

Roberts' wife, Linda, was born in the United Kingdom and professionally trained in ballet. The couple met while he was at the University of Oxford.

Honors and recognition

In 1981, Roberts was decorated with the United States Treasury Meritorious Service Award for "outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy".{{cite web |title=About Paul Craig Roberts |url=https://www.creators.com/author/paul-craig-roberts |website=creators.com |publisher=Creators Syndicate |access-date=January 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153353/https://www.creators.com/author/paul-craig-roberts |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |url-status = live}}

In 1987, he was invested into the French Legion of Honour at the rank of chevalier (knight) for his services to economics.{{cite news |title=Fading French Socialism |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/210564851 |access-date=January 13, 2019 |work=Longview News-Journal |date=April 14, 1987 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114210425/http://www.newspapers.com/image/210564851/ |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |url-status = live}}{{cite news |title=Légion d'honneur |work=Le Spectacle du Monde |issue=300 |date=November 1987}}

In 2015, Roberts received the International Journalism Award for Political Analysis from Club de Periodistas de Mexico.{{cite news |last1=Mena |first1=Carolina |title=Por su cobertura a los casos Ayotzinapa e IPN, el Club de Periodistas premia a La Jornada |url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2015/03/13/politica/013n1pol |access-date=January 13, 2018 |work=La Jornada |date=March 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153343/https://www.jornada.com.mx/2015/03/13/politica/013n1pol |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |url-status = live}}

In 2017, Roberts received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who.{{cite web |title=Paul Craig Roberts (Grad '67) |url=https://www2.alumni.virginia.edu/ClassNotes/PersonHistory.aspx?personId=17740 |website=virginia.edu |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=January 13, 2019}}

=Works=

==Books==

Alienation and the Soviet Economy: Toward a General Theory of Marxian Alienation, Organizational Principles, and the Soviet Economy (University of New Mexico Press, 1971) {{ISBN|0826302084}}
Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation, and Crisis (Hoover Institution Press, 1973; 1983) {{ISBN|0817933611}} (Spanish language edition: 1974)
The Supply Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington (Harvard University Press, 1984) {{ISBN|0674856201}} (Chinese language edition: 2012)
Warren Nutter, an Economist for All Time (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1984) {{ISBN|0844713694}}
Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy (Cato Institute, 1990) {{ISBN|0932790801}}
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 1997) {{ISBN|0195111761}} (Spanish language edition: 1999)
Alienation and the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era (Independent Institute, 1999: 2nd edition) {{ISBN|094599964X}}
The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy (Regnery Publishing, 1997) {{ISBN|0895264234}}
The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice (2000) {{ISBN|076152553X}} (Broadway Books, 2008: new edition)
Chile: Dos Visiones La Era Allende-Pinochet (Universidad Andres Bello, 2000). Joint author: Karen LaFollette Araujo. Spanish language.
How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds (AK Press, 2010) {{ISBN|978-1849350075}}
Wirtschaft Am Abgrund: Der Zusammenbruch der Volkswirtschaften und das Scheitern der Globalisierung (Weltbuch Verlag GmbH, 2012) {{ISBN|978-3938706381}}. German language.
Chile: Dos Visiones, La era Allende-Pinochet (2000) {{ISBN|9562841340}}
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West (Clarity Press, 2013) {{ISBN|0986036250}}
How America was Lost. From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State (Clarity Press, 2014) {{ISBN|978-0986036293}}
The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: Washington's Perilous War for Hegemony (Clarity Press, 2015) {{ISBN|0986076996}}
Amerikas Krieg gegen die Welt... und gegen seine eigenen Ideale (Kopp Verlag, 2015) {{ISBN|386445221X}}

==Journal articles==

{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |last2=Brown|first2=Norman|title=The Economics of the Right to Work Controversy: Revisited |journal=Southern Economic Journal |date=January 1969 |volume=35|issue=3|pages=265–266 |jstor=1056540 |doi=10.2307/1056540 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |last2=Brown|first2=Norman|title=The Polycentric Soviet Economy |journal=Journal of Law and Economics |date=April 1969 |volume=12|issue=1|pages=163–179 |jstor=724984 |doi=10.1086/466664 |s2cid=154050695 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |last2=Brown|first2=Norman|title=Politics and Science: A Critique of Buchanan's Assessment of Polanyi |journal=Ethics |date=April 1969 |volume=79|issue=3|pages=235–241 |jstor=2379846 |doi=10.1086/291728 |s2cid=145453222 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig|title="War Communism": A Re-Examination |journal=Slavic Review |date=June 1970 |volume=29|issue=2|pages=238–261 |jstor=2493378|doi=10.2307/2493378|doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig|title=Confrontation Tactics |journal=Science |date=August 28, 1970 |volume=169|issue=3948|pages=816 |jstor=1729709|doi=10.1126/science.169.3948.816|pmid=17750046|bibcode=1970Sci...169..816R}}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |last2=Stephenson|first2=Matthew|title=A Note on Marxian Alienation |journal=Oxford Economic Papers |date=November 1970 |volume=22|issue=3|pages=438–442 |jstor=2662543 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041176 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig|title=Marx's Classification of Economic Systems and the Soviet Economy |journal=Soviet Studies |date=July 1971|volume=23|issue=1|pages=96–102|jstor=149721|doi=10.1080/09668137108410789}}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=An Organization Model of the Market |journal=Public Choice |date=Spring 1971 |volume=10 |pages=81–92 |jstor=30022639 |doi=10.1007/BF01718623 |s2cid=153609832 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=Revealed Planners' Preferences Once Again: A Rebuttal to Drewnowski |journal=Journal of Political Economy |date=June 1972 |volume=80 |issue=3 |pages=608–611 |jstor=1830574 |doi=10.1086/259912 |s2cid=153397057 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig|title=A Diagrammatic Exposition of an Economic Theory of Imperialism |journal=Public Choice |date=Spring 1973 |volume=14|pages=101–107|doi=10.1007/BF01718444|jstor=30022705|s2cid=154734485}}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=Problems With Monetary Policy |journal=Business Economics |date=October 1986 |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=16–20 |jstor=23484312 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=Up from Mercantilism: Solving the Latin Debt Mess |journal=The National Interest |issue=20 |date=Summer 1990 |pages=63–70|jstor=42894681 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=A Reconsideration of the Welfare State |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |date=September 1998 |volume=142 |issue=3 |pages=396–398 |jstor=3152245 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=What Really Happened in 1981 |journal=The Independent Review |date=Fall 2000|volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=279–281 |jstor=24562652 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=My Time with Supply-Side Economics |journal=The Independent Review |date=Winter 2003 |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=393–397 |jstor=24562450 }}

==Popular articles==

{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=The Tax Reform Trap|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/164042586 |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=Arizona Daily Star |date=August 4, 1978}}
{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=Deficit Ogre Shouldn't Stop GOP Tax Cut|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/154635112 |agency=Creator's Syndicate|access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 28, 1995}}
{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=There's a Lot to Like About this Man|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/260164688 |access-date=January 21, 2019|agency=Scripps Howard News Service |work=Press & Sun-Bulletin |date=February 25, 1996}}
{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=A History Lesson on the Land of Liberty|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/340630545 |access-date=January 21, 2019|agency=Creator's Syndicate |work=Tampa Tribune |date=March 13, 1998}}
{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=One Nation, Under Monsanto |url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/26/one-nation-under-monsanto/ |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=CounterPunch |date=February 26, 2013}}
{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=The Working Class Won the Election |url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/09/the-working-class-won-the-election/ |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=CounterPunch |date=November 9, 2016 |archive-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122195530/https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/09/the-working-class-won-the-election/ |url-status=dead }}
{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Paul Craig |title=The Looting Machine Called Capitalism |url=https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/26/the-looting-machine-called-capitalism/ |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=CounterPunch |date=April 26, 2017}}

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